Christopher Coleman Collective
Christopher Coleman is a talented artist doing good things, liked what I heard so read on.
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1. Are you happy how things have gone for you so far?
Yes I think so. Today I definitely am; I’m still on a high from a fantastic weekend at the Port Fairy Folk Festival, which was the beginning of our album tour. It was a really great start.
2. What inspires you when writing music?
Nothing and everything in particular I suppose. Perhaps mostly it is inspired by living in a shell that we have named human.
3. What is your latest song about?
It is the fiction of a lady in her nineties, spending her last days in sterile hospital, tiring in frustration around being once again being as dependent as a child.
4. What do you like about touring?
A lot of my good friends also tour, so it is not uncommon to run into each other at festivals or crossing paths in capital cities. That is always a highlight, chance meetings with your tribe.
5. How important to you is touring regional alongside touring the cities?
This is the first tour I have done in Australia with regionals, so I am not sure how to answer that. On paper it sounds far more interesting and exciting for everyone involved, when in opposition to city shows.
6. What has been your favorite show to date?
I was talking to my dad last night saying that I played the best show of my life last night at the festival and he responded with ‘you always say that’. Except when I don’t, 90% of the time I am melodramatic and self absorbed around how badly I felt it went. In short, Port Fairy Folk Festival last night.
7. How does social media help you as an artist?
Certainly, particularly as an independent artist. There is the chance to connect directly with those interested in what you are doing but equally it is very difficult to not get lost in the now huge sea of music available. It seems to be a necessity to remain relevant in the current day and age, which is unfortunate for me because if I had my way I would not have a phone or computer, I would just post.
8. How important is connecting with your fans?
It is important. At this stage I am able to respond to each person who writes or wants to chat after a show. I like this human exchange where the pedestal is
stripped from underneath and there is that light bulb moment of two people both realising they are both just two lost people. Then the rock and roll mythology bull shit becomes non-existent.
9. If you could have any body in a video clip who would it be?
No idea. I will keep an eye out.
10. What’s your favorite venue to play at?
Wherever you present your songs can be your favorite, from busking on an empty street in English winter to being sunburnt on a ‘major’ festival stage. The venue itself does not hold so much weight as the feeling before going into the show. That being said I played in an indescribable cathedral in England last year. It was 12th century, an English king lay next to the altar in a tomb and the enormous ceiling sang with you.
11. What does 2014 have in store for you?
Touring this first record through Australia, New Zealand and the US and I hope to finish the second before the Australian summer season comes back around.
